COSTA MESA — The Bible Answer Man, host of a radio show where thorny Bible questions are answered, drew a blank last Thursday when a 7-year-old boy asked him the classic “did Adam have a belly button” question.

“There’s an answer, son, I just can’t think of it right now,” the Answer Man said. “I guess I’d say no — no belly button.”

Later in the show, the Answer Man changed his mind.

“God is no respecter of persons, so Adam must have been just like us,” he said. “So yes, young man. He had a belly button, just like you and me.”

The youngster called back and asked why Adam would have had a belly button if he hadn’t had an umbilical cord. The Answer Man said God probably gave him a “functionally useless” belly button so he wouldn’t be an oddity.

The boy then asked if Adam’s belly button was most likely “an innie or an outie.”